I've been focused on improving my anatomy the past few weeks, studying anatomy books, filling my sketchbook with figure and gesture drawings, visiting art exhibitions focused on character/portrait art. Basically I want to up my game as a character artist.

This is an anatomical study of the female form that I have been working on recently. Itís based on a single character, but at the same time I have been using different references to try and create a natural and 'attractive' sculpt.

I would love to hear some crits on how to improve this character from an anatomical perspective, and I would also be interested to hear your thoughts on how you would make this character more aesthetically pleasing. I know this can be very subjective, but I've also heard there are some traditional templates and 'feminine lines' to describe a generic/ideal form.

For ideal proportions use the golden ratio, with this ratio you can check some body proportions:
example:

The first example of the golden ratio in the average human body is that when the distance between the navel and the foot is taken as 1 unit, the height of a human being is equivalent to 1.618. Some other golden proportions in the average human body are:

The distance between the finger tip and the elbow / distance between the wrist and the elbow,
The distance between the shoulder line and the top of the head / head length,
The distance between the navel and the top of the head / the distance between the shoulder line and the top of the head,
The distance between the navel and knee / distance between the knee and the end of the foot.

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